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Help Needed: Finding Business Owners Without LinkedIn Profiles | Clay

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Help Needed: Finding Business Owners Without LinkedIn Profiles

·Aug 28, 2025 05:31 PM·

I need help finding the name of business owners. I am using the 'enrichment' for ai to read the 'about us' page on the website. But it keeps failing saying it cannot find the linkedin. Most of the businesses I track do not have a linkedin. Anyone able to help?

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Honourable A.
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what do you mean enrichment for AI? if you meant that you are using claygent, what ai verison are you using? 4omini?
Sourabh
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Hey 👋 that happens a lot with smaller businesses — many don’t have a LinkedIn presence, so enrichment models hit a wall. In those cases, the most reliable fallback is good old manual research: checking the About Us/Team page, local business listings, or even domain registration records. We’ve helped clients with this at scale by combining AI enrichment with a team of analysts who manually verify missing owner/founder details. Happy to share how we approach it if you’d like! Best, Sourabh Panoptic Analytics panopticanalytics.com sourabh@panopticanalytics.com LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sourabh85/
Josh C.
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I have been using Claygent Argon
Honourable A.
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Josh C. if you have open ai api, try the 4omini - you are also saving money im guessing they are small businesses, so the chance of finding their linkedin in slim. just do a prompt finding the owner of the company by searching their website and the internet as a whole
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Honourable A.
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Prompt sample: Search the web to identify the highest-ranking individual associated with a pest control company. Use the company name (/company name) and contact website(/company website) to assist in narrowing down the correct entity. Look for roles in the following priority order: - CEO - Founder - Owner - President - Principal - General Manager - Operations Manager Only return the highest-ranking person you can find from the list above. Search company websites, business directories, news articles, LinkedIn, and other public sources. Output the result in this format: Full Name – Job Title
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